Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.
- n. Archaic A yard, garden, or paddock.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A close; a yard; a garden.
- n. A dam or weir for catching fish.
- n. A hoop or band.
Wiktionary
- n. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
- n. A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
- n. paganism A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
- n. paganism A word for a location or sacred space, as used in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
- n. A dam or weir for catching fish.
- n. Prov. Eng. A hoop or band.
Etymologies
- From Old Norse garðr (cognate with Old English ġeard, whence English yard). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, enclosed yard, from Old Norse gardhr; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sister Benedicta, our best gardener at Polesworth, came here with me, the garth is her preserve.”
“by 'garth' meaning 'garden': a good word, and why the devil it should be obsolescent is more than I can tell you --”
“[Footnote: Aasgaard was the 'garth' or home of the gods.”
“On reading that I had to go back and check the signs: “FAKE SCIENCE IS REAL SCIENCE!” garth”
“In the comparative warmth of noon they sat together in the end carrel of the north walk of the cloister, where they could see down the full length of the walk across the garth.”
“And he stepped out into the empty walk and crossed the turf of the garth, limping heavily, and Cadfael was left gazing after him.”
“The same," said Forthred, and for a moment volunteered nothing more, but sat mute, gazing along the grass of the garth with eyes that looked inward rather than outward.”
“And Cadfael turned back into the cloister garth, and paced the bleached wintry sward very thoughtfully.”
“Clearly, there is only one author of ill-informed comments here, and it ain't me!" dcshungu before you declare Garth uninformed you should probably understand that by 're-run' garth is very likely talking about a re-run of Republican Lite, the DLC in command.”
“How then is he less hawkish than Hillary, his multiple apologies for political expediency notwithstanding? dcshungu before you declare Garth uninformed you should probably understand that by 're-run' garth is very likely talking about a re-run of Republican Lite, the DLC in command.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘garth’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Dam
List of words pertaining to dams and other means of impounding and directing water; their names, parts, pieces, passageways.
gage-weir, rafter-dam, bear-trap dam, tripsill, splash-dam, flood-dam, flooding-dam, sluiceway, spillway, millrace, headrace, sluice-valve and 38 more...
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tom, dick and harry
merry andrew, spotted dick, black jack, lazy susan, bloody mary, charley horse, doubting thomas, willy nilly, jolly roger, peg leg, catherine wheel, charlotte russe and 156 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 226 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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Land
Tweets
Looking for tweets for garth.
johnmperry from which the word "garden"
Aug 25, 2008
chained_bear In castle architecture, a courtyard or internal enclosure, open to the sky. Aug 25, 2008